Hong Kong authorities have sped up the investigation and prosecution of more than 200 serious child abuse cases over the past two years under efforts by an interdepartmental task force that made earlier intervention by government lawyers easier. Among the cases examined by the Vulnerable Victims and Child Protection Task Force was a high-profile one…
A four-year-old Hong Kong boy has died after being given herbal medicine, with his mother arrested for child neglect. The boy’s mother, 36, and her husband alerted authorities at around 12pm on Sunday after she found her son passed out in their flat in Lucky Building on San Ma Tau Street, Hung Hom. An ambulance…
A mother has been arrested in Hong Kong for alleged child neglect after her four-year-old son was suspected to have been injected with herbal medicine, leaving him fighting for his life in hospital. The woman, 36, and her husband alerted authorities at around 12pm on Sunday when the mother found her son passed out in…
China is outraged after officials in eastern China said that a case in which a boy stabbed his classmate more than 200 times with a sewing awl over three months “did not meet the standards of bullying”. According to the victim’s parents, their daughter was stabbed in her thigh by a male transfer student at…